At least not until the case has been cracked.

But I have well and truly gone down the rabbit hole on this one. This happens to me sometimes: In October of 2004, I pretty much stopped doing everything and devoted an entire month to tracking polls, trying to figure out who was going to win the election. For about 72 hours in 2002, I became obsessed with the idea that you could create a mathematical formula that would correctly predict the future of romantic relationships and tried to re-teach myself high-school math so I could make it happen.

I think it is a genetic disorder (Julie, my editor, suffers from it also), and I think they will eventually identify the fanboy gene that made me sleep four hours a night this weekend while trying to answer the question of who is behind the lonelygirl15 fiction, and what the plot is about, and how complex the clues truly are. Anyway, I've started posting at the messy but smart lonelygirl15 forum, which is a sure sign that I've lost my mind.

Some brief updates, for those who care:

Lonelygirl15, America's favorite possible Satanist (or, at the very least, Thelemite), is an adorably innocent little thing who reports she is now "preparing for an important religious ritual." Is that sacrificed virgin I smell?

Lindsay Robertson posted a hilarious blog post in which she (fairly) ridicules me and everyone else associated with lonely girl and daniel beast. The title of the post: BoredGirl29.

In her previous video, which involved making cookies, the date "10/12/06" was cleverly inserted into the narrative. October 12 happens to be the birthday of noted occultist, Thelema founder, cocaine addict, racist, Scientology-inspirer, and sex addict Aleister Crowley. Lonelygirl15, of course, keeps a portrait of Crowley on her wall.

It seems to me that the creator of the lonelygirl15 web site, who is in some way involved with the lg15/db enterprise, may be part of "A Secret Society," at least according to a random post inserted by an unknown user a month and a half ago into wikipedia. And you can always trust wikipedia!

Secret societies! Satanism! Weird dates in the future! How will we ever get out of this labyrinth?

Happy Labor Day. Tomorrow: Looking for Alaska news from around the world (hint: I'm a bestseller in Mexico).